Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1886 — The Cradle of Liberty. [ARTICLE]

The Cradle of Liberty.

The following is a story which Bishop Williams is said to be very fond of repeating te the students of the (Episcopal) theological seminary, at Middletown, over which he presides: Question —Where was the cradle of liberty first placed ? Answer—On Plymouth Rock. Q.—Who placed the cradle of liberty on Plymouth Rock ? A.—The Puritan fathers. Q. —Why did the Puritan fathers place the cradle of liberty on Plymouth Rock? - A.—That the cradle might be handy for rocking liberty to sleep while the Puritan fathers were cutting the tongues out of the Quakers’ mouths. This story, one of many jokes which Bishop Williams, it is saw,, delights in cracking at the expense of his own ancestors, falls in with the spirit of the times and will no doubt hit a number of the people also descended from good old New England stock. "—Waterbury News. ■